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Nature 413, 240 (20 September 2001) | doi:10.1038/35095180
Mad cow disease comes to Japan
Jim Giles
The reach of mad cow disease extended around the globe on 10 September, when Japan announced the first confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a cow born outside Europe.Japanese officials say that a cow in the Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, has been diagnosed with the disease.
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